links for 2008-07-11

What fol­lows is not a defence of a craft but a series of real scen­arios that will demon­strate the sort of pres­sures you may face in later life: whether you are called a sub, a pro­du­cer, a page designer, a copy editor, part of a pod, hub, desk or remote in

4chan’s grow­ing pains are part of a lar­ger issue: how to turn a wave of online traffic into a viable busi­ness… “My biggest time spent has been con­vin­cing com­pan­ies in mar­ket­ing poten­tial in 4chan but no one sees eye to eye,” says Mr. Poole.

…product place­ment on broad­cast TV dur­ing the first quarter of 2008 was up almost 40% from the pre­vi­ous year — and that “Amer­ican Idol” alone had 3,291 product placements.

Don’t you think that the Chief of Innov­a­tion of the Tribune Com­pany should at least come up with new ideas? Wouldn’t it be a little self-defeating if he were to make six fig­ures a year and simply recycle old mater­ial? Well, he did just that.

Search can be an exten­sion of telling a story. Google finds pages. It doesn’t knit those pages together into narratives.